DIY Bracelet: Cross Style Chain Woven Bracelet

Jun 6 2013

Another DIY bracelet using chain and suede? Yes, that’s right this is the 4th one in the series and I still have lots of ideas on how to create new patterns and styles. This DIY bracelet binds to pieces of chain together by doing a variation of the simple shoe lace cross.

DIY Bracelet tutorial instructions:

Start off by measuring and cutting the length of your chain for your bracelet. I’ve cut the chain for the standard 7 inch bracelet here. But for your personal perfect length, measure the circumference of your own wrist then add half an inch.

Next is the measuring and cutting the length of your suede lace. The length should be 3 times the length of your bracelet. So in my tutorial here I’ve measured it for 21 inches since I’m planning to have a 7 inch bracelet.

Lay your 2 chains next to each other. Take your suede lace and loop and tighten it around the 2 inner loops of the 2 chain pieces to bind them together. It if you like you can tie a knot to make it extra section, but I find just looping it through is enough. Make sure both ends of the lace are the same length.

Creating this cross style bracelet is very much like lacing your shoelaces. Take the 2 ends and cross them and thread them forward through the next chain link.

You basically repeat this alternation the direct you thread through (front to back, or back to front) to create this ‘X’ stitch. My photo tutorial between steps 5 to 8 show the exact movement of how the strands are woven for a little more detail.

Once you come to the end of your chain, snip off the excess end of lace and secure ends by tying off and gluing the ends down with a hot glue gun.

I really like this bracelet but I am wondering if it is really a 10*7mm chain that you have used? I tried with a chain that I had at home that was 9*6mm and the suede looked weird, you could not see as much of it as one can in your pictures. Tried again after I had ordered some new chain that was 8*5mm and now it looks like your finished bracelet.

I have tried to do this several times now. I am following your instructions very carefully and yet I have not once been able to get more than 2 crosses and my chain twists up and it quits crossing correctly. How do you keep the chain straight to weave the suede through without it twisting the chain around?

I have tried this several times and I am following your instructions very carefully. I get the first cross done and everything after that doesn’t turn out as a cross because some how my chain twists up and messes it all up. How do you keep the chain straight while weaving the suede in so that you get get clean crosses. I am at my wits end, and I really want to make this bracelet!

Hi there, Oh yes, the problem of twisting chains. I have also has this problem of trying keeping the chains always laid flat. What you can do is take some tape and tape the bottoms down flat to a board of even the table while you’re making it. Hopefully that will help! Or even if you use a safetly pin to pin the ends together, that also helps with twisting.

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